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Ryan Domingo, PhD Candidate
Ryan Domingo is a Ph.D. student in the Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences Program at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Born and raised on Hawaii Island, he is a 3rd generation farmer who received his M.S. in Tropical Conservation Biology and Environmental Science and B.A in Biology from the University of Hawaii at Hilo. Ryan is currently researching on identifying phytophthora resistant genes in Carica papaya. Other research interests include plant genetics, pathology, and tissue culture to develop practical protocols to benefit farmers and researchers alike.
Anna McCormick, Post-doctoral Fellow
Anna has a background in Genetics and Biochemistry and is pursuing a Post-doc within the Kantar Lab. Her project focuses on understanding the evolutionary history of wild and domesticated varieties of plants. She works on a wide range of species using high performance computing and bioinformatics she hopes to understand the effect domestication and continued gene flow.
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Quinn Campbell, Phd student
Quinn was born and raised in the high desert of Reno, Nevada, and has spent his career since graduating from University of Nevada Reno studying ecological restoration within the sagebrush ecosystems of Nevada. More recently, Quinn changed course to pursue his interests in agriculture, building and managing urban gardens and farms in Reno to educate and connect the youth with their food and the natural world. Through his PhD research, Quinn hopes to connect his experiences in ecology and agriculture to understand how wild populations of crop relatives are responding to climate change, and whether these adaptations are valuable for adapting modern crops to intensifying global change. His work will specifically focus on drought tolerance in wild populations of sorghum.
Melissa Naugle, Phd student
Melissa is a PhD student within the Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program based at Southern Cross University in Australia. She is a visiting member of the Kantar lab through the Evolving Seas Research Coordinated Network’s Virtual Lab Meeting Training Program. Melissa studies the heat tolerance of Acropora hyacinthus, a reef-building coral, across the Great Barrier Reef. She is interested in identifying genetic markers associated with heat tolerance to better understand the molecular underpinnings of coral heat tolerance variation and to build predictive models that management programs can use to identify the most heat tolerant corals for selective breeding, assisted gene flow, or conservation prioritization.
Honorary Members
Paddington Bear, PhD Student
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Lab Alumni
Justin Anderson, Post-doc, 2016
Mona Al Tamimi, undergraduate 2016
Joshua Tomiyama, undergraduate 2016-17
Elizabeth Winnicki, undergraduate, 2016-2019
Alexandra Campbell, MS, 2018
Roshan Paudel, MS, 2018
Kauahi Perez, PhD, 2019
Todd Anderson, MS, 2020
Achyut Adhikari, MS, 2020
Mary Winnicki, undergraduate, 2020-2021
Anya Wu, undergraduate, 2020-2021
Carter Zamora, undergraduate, REU intern 2021
Lydia Rigge, REEU Data Science intern, 2021
Olivia Johnson, REEU Data Science intern, 2021
Alycia Tausaga, REEU Data Science intern, 2021
Jesse Mikasobe-Kealiinohomoku, REEU Data Science intern, 2021
Katie Strachan, REEU Data Science intern, 2021
Elizabeth Swantek, REEU Data Science intern, 2021
Germaine Lindsay Juan, REEU Data Science intern, 2021
Sujung Chung, undergraduate, 2021-2022
Noa Brenner, REEU Data Science intern, 2022
Nicholas Carr, REEU Data Science intern, 2022
India Kawelolani Ching, REEU Data Science intern, 2022
G'Voni Kalaiwaa, REEU Data Science intern, 2022
Stefano Naldini, REEU Data Science intern, 2022
Alanna Nguyen, REEU Data Science intern, 2022
Tomas Pierce, REEU Data Science intern, 2022
Bjarne Bartlett, PhD, 2022
Roma Amor B. Malasarte, REEU Data Science, intern, 2023
Abigail H. Ana, REEU Data Science, intern, 2023
Joseph Carmelo M. Averion, REEU Data Science, intern, 2023
Kayla-Marie A. Torres, REEU Data Science intern, 2023
D. JadenYamagata-Santos, REEU Data Science intern, 2023
Keilah C. Wilkes, REEU Data Science intern, 2023
Stephenie Andriana Santos, REEU Data Science intern, 2023
Amanda K. Nitta, REEU Data Science intern, 2023
Ethan S.Morrell, REEU Data Science intern, 2023
Zeus Gean Paul Miguel, REEU Data Science intern, 2023
Sandy Carmo, visiting scientist, 2023
Ava Anderson, undergraduate, 2023
Stacy Lucas, undergraduate, 2023
Bryceson Tugade, undergraduate, 2023
MJ Dinong, undergraduate, 2023
Hervé Nankangré, Fulbright scholar, 2023
Juli Burden, MS, 2023
Nathan Fumia, PhD, 2023
Justin Anderson, Post-doc, 2016
Mona Al Tamimi, undergraduate 2016
Joshua Tomiyama, undergraduate 2016-17
Elizabeth Winnicki, undergraduate, 2016-2019
Alexandra Campbell, MS, 2018
Roshan Paudel, MS, 2018
Kauahi Perez, PhD, 2019
Todd Anderson, MS, 2020
Achyut Adhikari, MS, 2020
Mary Winnicki, undergraduate, 2020-2021
Anya Wu, undergraduate, 2020-2021
Carter Zamora, undergraduate, REU intern 2021
Lydia Rigge, REEU Data Science intern, 2021
Olivia Johnson, REEU Data Science intern, 2021
Alycia Tausaga, REEU Data Science intern, 2021
Jesse Mikasobe-Kealiinohomoku, REEU Data Science intern, 2021
Katie Strachan, REEU Data Science intern, 2021
Elizabeth Swantek, REEU Data Science intern, 2021
Germaine Lindsay Juan, REEU Data Science intern, 2021
Sujung Chung, undergraduate, 2021-2022
Noa Brenner, REEU Data Science intern, 2022
Nicholas Carr, REEU Data Science intern, 2022
India Kawelolani Ching, REEU Data Science intern, 2022
G'Voni Kalaiwaa, REEU Data Science intern, 2022
Stefano Naldini, REEU Data Science intern, 2022
Alanna Nguyen, REEU Data Science intern, 2022
Tomas Pierce, REEU Data Science intern, 2022
Bjarne Bartlett, PhD, 2022
Roma Amor B. Malasarte, REEU Data Science, intern, 2023
Abigail H. Ana, REEU Data Science, intern, 2023
Joseph Carmelo M. Averion, REEU Data Science, intern, 2023
Kayla-Marie A. Torres, REEU Data Science intern, 2023
D. JadenYamagata-Santos, REEU Data Science intern, 2023
Keilah C. Wilkes, REEU Data Science intern, 2023
Stephenie Andriana Santos, REEU Data Science intern, 2023
Amanda K. Nitta, REEU Data Science intern, 2023
Ethan S.Morrell, REEU Data Science intern, 2023
Zeus Gean Paul Miguel, REEU Data Science intern, 2023
Sandy Carmo, visiting scientist, 2023
Ava Anderson, undergraduate, 2023
Stacy Lucas, undergraduate, 2023
Bryceson Tugade, undergraduate, 2023
MJ Dinong, undergraduate, 2023
Hervé Nankangré, Fulbright scholar, 2023
Juli Burden, MS, 2023
Nathan Fumia, PhD, 2023